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Because We Knew You Needed To Laugh At Someone Today

November 24, 2008 6:54pm

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  • #1 / Nov 24, 2008 6:54pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    So… due to an error on our server, some of you today received an outdated Download Account renewal notice.  A glitch led to the resending of emails to users whose accounts originally expired between late August and today.  Embarrassing, to say the least, and we felt bad.  We hate spam!  But queries were beginning to role in quickly as to what was going on, and to save Les and Lisa from replying to these emails all day, we decided to send out an apology email to those that received the errant duplicate notifications, letting them know that no, their account hadn’t just expired again, please ignore it, and accept our humble apologies.

    It’s a Monday, so of course this wouldn’t work as planned.  Let’s just say that our mea culpa resulted in spamming these pour souls worse than the original error.  The egg’s on our face, we’re terribly sorry, hope that you forgive us, and we have chastised the server gremlins which led to this in the first place.

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  • #2 / Nov 24, 2008 7:00pm

    Mark Bowen

    12637 posts

    Don’t worry too badly about it. It happens to us all at some point.

    I just had to force Mail to believe me that you weren’t spamming me is all 😉

  • #3 / Nov 24, 2008 7:11pm

    TechWench

    30 posts

    Heh.  I never got a renewal email, but I got about 12 sorry-for-the-duplicates emails.  😛

  • #4 / Nov 24, 2008 7:20pm

    jeremydouglas

    292 posts

    I wondered what was up when I looked at how many unread messages I had. I was glad it was just this error and not clients asking me to do stuff.

  • #5 / Nov 24, 2008 7:27pm

    Yoshi

    39 posts

    wow now i almost feel left out, I only got 1 email. 😛

  • #6 / Nov 24, 2008 7:38pm

    stinhambo

    1268 posts

    I’m moving to Joomla

  • #7 / Nov 24, 2008 7:52pm

    Boyink!

    5011 posts

    Worse?

    I paid.

    :red:

    Guess I’m good till 2010 then….😉

  • #8 / Nov 24, 2008 8:36pm

    GDmac - expocom

    350 posts

    Derek, it was almost as odd as that last email-exchange about the ‘expensive sql-queries’ blog-entry.
    As much as i thought THAT was a coincidence but appropriate, i had an EE-account expiring today and was thinking the account-renewal-apology-mail-bomb was a sign 😊 i had it coming.

  • #9 / Nov 24, 2008 9:23pm

    Philip Zaengle

    293 posts

    I’m moving to Joomla

    Haha

  • #10 / Nov 24, 2008 10:01pm

    GDmac - expocom

    350 posts

    Ha, Stinhambo goes for the Honeypot…

    (update: link made into tinyurl becasue EE doesn’t allow ( or ) in the url-bug.)

  • #11 / Nov 24, 2008 10:11pm

    Deron Sizemore

    1033 posts

    I was really confused and one of those that sent an email back asking questions. Sorry ‘bout that.

  • #12 / Nov 24, 2008 11:39pm

    mkuplens

    6 posts

    Heh.  I never got a renewal email, but I got about 12 sorry-for-the-duplicates emails.  😛

    Ditto - the duplicate apology for the nonexistant duplicates was most amusing

  • #13 / Nov 25, 2008 5:57am

    jensa

    109 posts

    I also feel left out? I never got the first email, just the “excuse” one 😉

  • #14 / Nov 25, 2008 8:04am

    Andy Harris

    958 posts

    Funnily enough, I once sent out an email campaign set to 20 copies each by mistake. So if I see duplicates I always just assume someone had a day like ‘Black Friday’ as I’ve come to call it. And I pity them.

  • #15 / Nov 25, 2008 9:23am

    Michael C. (KKCJ)

    100 posts

    I got the apology notice 3 times, but due to Google Apps, it was only one entry / thread in my inbox. Yay for Google Apps!

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